
I have bought a HP Pavilion dv6-6b11ss. It comes with Windows 7 64-bit and some partitions for recovery, UEFI, HP-tools… so I have removed the recovery partition and resized the NTFS partition to get free space for Linux.
Ubuntu 12.04 works fine but you need some tweaks:
- Add “acpi_backlight=vendor acpi_osi=Linux” to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT variable in the /etc/default/grub file. Run “update-grub” after.
- Modify some settings on BIOS/UEFI setup: enable Hardware Virtualization and disable “Action Keys” (to make Fn keys work as you expect usually)
- Install laptop-mode-tools package and config ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE_TOOLS=1 in the file /etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf
